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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Scientists in Switzerland have built a robot as small as a grain of sand. Surgeons control it with magnets and move it through blood vessels to place medicine exactly where it is needed. Bradley J. Nelson, an author of the paper in Science and a professor of robotics at ETH Zurich, said …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! On the heels of comedian Dave Coulier’s announcement of his tongue cancer diagnosis, experts are sharing what to know about the disease. Coulier, 66, announced in a Tuesday interview that he has been diagnosed with early-stage P16 carcinoma, or oropharyngeal tongue cancer.  “Oropharyngeal” refers to cancer that begins at the base of …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Scientists at UCLA have developed an “off-the-shelf” cell-based immunotherapy that was able to track down and kill pancreatic cancer cells even after they had spread to other organs. In a mouse study, the treatment slowed cancer growth, extended survival and remained effective even within the harsh environment of solid tumors. “Even when …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Nutrition can be the key to warding off disease — even devastating conditions like cancer. That’s according to doctors such as Dr. Frank Dumont, an internal medicine physician and executive medical director of Virta Health, a Colorado-based group that tackles metabolic health through diet. In an on-camera interview with Fox News Digital, …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A new study from Northwestern Medicine suggests that current lung cancer screening guidelines may be missing most Americans who develop the disease — and researchers say it’s time for a major change. Published in JAMA Network Open, the study analyzed nearly 1,000 lung cancer patients who were treated at Northwestern Medicine between …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Days after Tatiana Schlossberg announced that she has terminal cancer, the spotlight is on the warning signs of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). John F. Kennedy’s granddaughter, 35, shared the details of her diagnosis in an essay published in The New Yorker on Nov. 22. Schlossberg, who is the daughter of Kennedy’s daughter, …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! What we eat plays a major role in our health and well-being, especially in the development of chronic disease. On a recent episode of Dr. Mark Hyman’s podcast, “The Dr. Hyman Show,” the physician and Function Health co-founder spoke about how eating habits can change the course of illness. Podcast guest Dr. …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Scientists studying an existing blood pressure drug called hydralazine accidentally discovered that it could potentially fight cancer. Hydralazine has been used to treat high blood pressure since the 1950s, but until now it’s been unclear exactly how it works. “It came from a ‘pre-target’ era of drug discovery, when researchers relied on …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Eating a certain type of food could increase the risk of getting a deadly cancer at a younger age, researchers say. A new study at Mass General Brigham has linked higher consumption of ultraprocessed foods, which largely include ready-to-eat foods with high levels of sugar, salt, saturated fat and food additives, to …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Colon cancer patients could live longer if they take GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, a new study suggests. Researchers at UC San Diego studied more than 6,800 patients who were taking one of these popular similar diabetes and weight-loss medications. They found that the patients were much less likely to die …